Obama Makes More Cabinet Picks

3/4/2013 12:00PM

Wendy Bounds and Keith Johnson discuss President Obama tapping more cabinet choices, and Lauren Weber and the American Psychological Association's David Ballard look at stress and the American worker. Photo: AP.

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... I ... it is Monday marked for two thousand thirteen welcome to lunch break I'm Wendy downs today on the show can't take note new finds reversing long held guidelines ... about how in the Sandy in East African influence like peanut butter and fish we have the de tails also one-third of Americans now suffer from chronic stress in the workplace that is Jake has an exclusive early look at a startling news survey and ... a waterfront estate in Darien Connecticut is just one of four amazing candidates for WSJ's House of the week we're going unveil the winner the first ... present Obama needs to top picks for key energy environmental close with in his administration joining me now ... is the beest reporter Keith Johnson he is in RDC gear keep ... thanks for being here let's talk about this EPA EPA ... I'll which could be particularly polarizing ... talk a little bit about the record Jim McCarthy ... the the the the one thing about this card uses a known commodity he has been the last four years is the Number two official in on an EPA under President Obama ... on you but one thing that actually comes true this is talking with energy lobbyists talking with people from big energy companies talk with Environmentalist's ... Aussie something they can really work with both sides and bring them together so well that the EPA ... are is likely to come under fire under the nomination process ... you not a lot of people embrace personally shoes with her ... all you know this not the sort of problems that people face in his nomination of process given his past remarks positions in things like that ... so maybe contentious but a lot of people think she should really get to get firms ... with a little bit about some of the issues that she has been at the center of that have actually been challenged in court including the greenhouse gas standards ... if she herself does not call writing these issues may well be ... this is this is where the administration wants to go the second term on an effective president has stated the Union said ... you know Congress doesn't act to curb greenhouse gas emissions would use executive authority ... that basically translates in DVAX since she's been one of the four runners in drafting the new rules that could be finalized now all that she needed to to make new power plants cleaner also everyone expects that the next thing coming down the tightened the rules for existing power plants ... also she's been in the thick of the fight so far I'm sure the outcome of the nomination ... of that again this is one of those issues the president made very clear he made it clear to the campaign ... of that this is Ray wants to go even reiterated today in the presentations ... the the the the the the Department of Energy pic is a nuclear business this is this now working at him I'd see ... I mean ... huge impact on the global natural gas market if confirmed while after a little bit about him ... what this is this is one of the kiasu system it come up for the for the new energy secretaries to decide whether the U S should in fact authorized ... awsome exports of liquefied natural gas ... to countries with which we don't have a free trade agreement that one of the really big decisions this painting are the only battle beyond now Dr moneys is lately gets there ... now in the past he is saying is that even in interdisciplinary team in MIT to look into the issue of natural gas markets he said ... that the U S should not our exports in the fact that a strong and vibrant natural gas trade would be good for the US and that the global economy ... so from the point of view of buying another natural gas industry and people wanna see exports ... that's a good day ... for environmentalists who were very leery so far the fracking revolution and a prospect for enhanced exports that's a little bit iffy ... so that's the one flashpoint for of for Dr money's going forward ... I keep thanks so much for joining us with more on WS J dot com about these two nominees for Senate one-third of American workers suffer chronic stress and that is according to a new survey from the American psychological Association ... in an early sneak peek here on Lunch Break will be talking about that ... in just eighty seconds ... be ... Mirvac and addition lunch break I'm Wendy downs one-third to one third of American workers suffer from chronic stress according ... to a new survey from the American psychological Association is particularly bad for women join me ... right now to talk about this WSJ's Lauren Weber and David ... Fowler he is with the American psychological Association which is about some of these numbers thank so much to both of you for being here Mark ... oh what star with you because ... you know when we controlled our these numbers and net that ... set the stage is why ... this chronic stress is here we swam know when inherently can feel it ... up but lay out the factors for stroke and well in the survey which they will talk about more ... common ... to this on factors that people cite our that they're not thinking enough they don't have enough opportunities to advance ... their workloads are too heavy and ... I think it's really kind of the backdrop of this the volume of work has increased for most people in the velocity of forecast an increase in case ... the fact that we are carrying smartphones which I carry emails and I it's cutting into our time with our families ... all of these factors come in and add to the sense that you're never quite high enough or we can expect your jogging Endeavour on top of it and what companies ever did during the weekend and down downturn waltz positions but not unnecessarily killing them so they're still has work to be done but they're being very are cautious about his positions or bets that adds to the pressure IP pledging more classy and David let's get some of the headlines not numbers here because you describe this is very interesting terminology new Civic ... mean organizations have management practices straight at ... the industrial ... revolution I you know tells what you mean by that and let's get some of the top headline numbers out of their critically when it comes to women the survey ... the bank yet I think of the work is change we can get when you work in our something that we do rather than something that we we go to everyday ... while King of the change significantly organization are still functioning at the same way ... for many decades ... training managers to effectively work with the remote work force are not getting work with what they were the measures in place ... and are putting more demands on fewer people fuel for protection and employees are suffering at all ... and so the big numbers they've been struck me out of this survey we did say that one-third of people feel like they're suffering from chronic stress ... but when particular seemed to be susceptible of this one and Number showing there ... I'm sure in terms of men and women while there are huge ... we are talking about different route that are adding that a problem on top of already that number ... feel like a level playing field for women ... I think they ... feel less value than the forty eight percent of women to feel valued versus fifty four percent of mid western half of employed women did they get adequate monetary compensation for what they do compared to forty percent of employed men ... and the awful thing they don't have enough opportunities for growth for example within the organization or the resource to help them manage ... I was of both sexes though a little bit more by women Beastie stash MRI I was talk about the proper sound ... ID discusses on as another study of licensure ... this is that we really don't have a buffer zone anymore ... to get away from work we need ... exactly what extent are found that seventy five percent of ... Americans report that they were sharing their pain ten month check vacations drinkers Monday is ... on the most common ... I think ... thing that people do is check the email corset so easy to do when your item in your BlackBerry back when ... I was really inching was up thirty percent of people said the paper to speak on conference calls and forty four percent said that they actually take days off in order to catch up on work because it's almost impossible you take a vacation ... you go away feeling shaky know at some point during the vacation when you come back just because the critical mass of work we all had now ... when you have when even until next at twenty four hours just to catch back up from your vacation is actually a very windy backing a vacation from your vacation ... I'd talk about the jump back over to you because I can't help but wonder you know we we signed all the numbers we hear them with red intuitively known in there but ... what else can impede alternate impact both ... on our bodies are healthy ... and also just haven't workplaces in general ... well that the human body and mind ... is built to manage dressed in a short term ... but when it ... becomes chronic wheat to do with the health problems mental health problems that affect our ... job performance that affect our relationship ... and it's clear that the that thing happened to them and turned over to Outperform and ... I and the reputation of being able to attract high quality workers to keep it a competitive advantage in the marketplace ... the problem for employees but the problem for the bottom line ... I did our current think semester being with us more the Pursell Journal section tomorrow ... when we come back new research out that could opt in current treatment of children with food allergies ... be talking about that in just thirty seconds ... for ... I'm that that that is to much Peckham Wendy downs new research out the clip up in the current treatment of children with food allergies joined us right now on Lunch Break explains midtier readings his Wall Street Journal's ... Your Health columnist on this ... Fidelity's for kids in such a hot button issue in from New Year's ... present and told them to leave the Inner junction of these highly energetic complete and sufficient ... NPS to baby's diet that this new research is suggesting something pretty different ... Sears and the new guidelines of Dr Owens group and they're saying ... you can introduce tighter after the deal is worth six minus forty six of which is not in the protocol so far ... while not what it there's been a bit we're guessing that now that they're ... the Peterson's Group didn't say a few years ago but there's no added to delay introduction ... is going to prevent dollars he'll walk and still are very nervous about that right that if you already have a child in the house who was allergic to peanuts and you've seen the reaction ... on that day the kids can have on from this and ... here I wonder if people in the nervous about ... falling some of this new early introduction guidelines and when you think ... nursing cabbie us if your kid you not like that to repay an exit exam was that was the reaction then ... you can get the completion consultant artist ... he was given a parody of a better chance of having that effect of having this so ... you can say you still can do this if you want to work on for waking ... like us ... it was the rationale behind introducing early years of thinking that we will build up the resistance I think we're getting these things in a younger age perhaps it going forward them to ... use different there is one theory is that yes your doctor immune system ... now he's a reaction to that so it ... that is an attack or you're lacking something ... so if you're betting systems are trained to stay in areas exposed trys to triple that our kids ... and this is not unusual I think the poison Ivy I'm very allergic to how he was appointed I didn't get to the player like that I know people who treatments with a quilt will ... introduce was nineteen degrees isn't this a try and build up immunity to isn't this a sort of one ... level thinking with allergies of all all different source not just food ... other than sticking with the wind in the EU has found some of your research he's played a role in allergies focus with that that's another for a pot to the theory which is that ... of the less exposed happening do you have a better chance if we are seeing is that is coming up this week from a group of researchers in Australia ... look at a bunch of kids and found that those that ... have much greater Worcester claimed he had ... a much lesser chance of having the privilege very interesting I just ... out there who do not have children with Fidelity's and what a wonderful ... you will warm ... up act with the right to know that links to music ... officers out just how bad can a ... country that they can be anything from the little brats to ... sort it before and you know ... get the reaction and so ... the groups that about thirty percent chance to have gone to work after a severe reaction ... to protect Japan's the point here is what the making who had a kid's wish to settle the site making some very I get some some parts prices and a bit in their own households now alright more research community to be in the Wall Street Journal's Pursell Journal section tomorrow thanks so much ... meantime the Earth's transforming treatment for a super deadly form of blood cancer here at the D tells us will feature a health reporter ... Jonathan Rockoff family also had the International ... Adama Foundation co founder and chairman ... Dr Ryan Cary he is on the phone with us thanks to both of you for being your job and ... I was that we knew him multiple myeloma it is a particularly aggressive form of cancer ... how does it start and spread and and what's been a typical prognosis for survival ... well it's a it's an insidious form of cancer starts in the bone marrow which is ... part of the body that makes the plasma cells that you need to fight off infections ... and that to spreads like wild fire from there so it's going to have to worsen bonus for your whole body ... and people and in the past mean that that that that time percent while it's been very smooth very narrow in the nineteen eighties it was just a few months in the nineties and as you know one to two years now at seven years so ... the point is that there's been the cervix pollution of new treatments over the last decade have lengthened the median survival for patients quite considerably ... Prime money intended to jumping jumping here and ... now some of the new drive to the doctors were using ... how they work and how much shooting of a atop the listing seven years how much candy you know ... on average Lincoln someone's life ... sth tht use the strokes were lion was leaving the engine Michael informants in the former was well strictly attacking the moral law ... and the US the impact is being enormous ... doubling the ... anticipated survival from ... approximately the ... use of a decade ago as you just ... two seven points the years the just in the last year or two so a major impact with its Thabo ... modulation of the growth of the cancer in the marrow ... and I haven't cried at Beck and call or talk about ... and in the equity deal to buy ... and what what are the major stunt that he would have to look up with that on some of these new drugs to the need to belong to the same classes as the old roads ... and so the side effects again be similar with the old tracks and the luster stand with a new drugs is this thing called peripheral Iraq with the with dessert of dance USA can get tingling and numbness in her fingers and toes so that's ... sad that women taking one of the new tracks ... on the list to ... um shouldn't be taking it if they're pregnant are contemplating auction a B that's another issue ... low blood counts ... could be an issue ... on things like that and my name to some of these in front so people can be on the lookout for the rights of the two newest ones are Pomalyst and chakra lists and in some of the older ones are now the unraveling and in an insurance like I call significantly higher costs there are very high in this is gonna be an issue that we wanna watch going forward because these drugs can cost seven thousand dollars a month or more ... they're often taken in combination with one or two of the tree and so the cost can be quite substantial ... Prime money jump back in the final word you hear banging in terms of IQ or how far ... away are we when it comes to multiple myeloma ... it's the you leave was using combinations of those lovely just the you are remarkably close we can achieve what we call the permissions on your computer missions in the field ... with some added effort that we can be very old son in fact ... the International myeloma Foundation is looking to start a new initiative pointing in that direction because we feel that we are back loans ... a candidate ... try and get our eye in a best suited to try some of these new treatments ... this is ... to ninety five percent of patients to benefit from the stage is either one or in combination and so this is the tremendous news for ... the Standard daughter who us to discuss ... the ... crimes is that these drugs are working ... for the large majority of patients and ... conferring this type of a ... survival benefit ... thank you for being here more in Personal ... section ... tomorrow ... when we come back it is time for health of the week you voted you decided who won in detail about it and pick the winner and weigh the winner ... in thirty seconds ... ay ay ay ay ay ay ... ay ay ay ... ay ... we're back to the beest lunch break I'm Wendy downs of the House of the week you voted you picked who wants to extend his gut tells all about first ... he's walk the walk us through all of the lovely candidates this first one I've been because ... of the Twilight potential missing Kinetic it ever has in Darien Connecticut eighteen sixty four hundred square foot home on the waterfront and what's great about is that it's right across the harbor ... there's an eighty acre park with wildlife sanctuary in this wild flowers all over the place ... and because of that nature preserve you have a lot of birds that will ... survive or to the area ... so here's your big on birdwatching this is the home for you ... in the past five bedrooms four pullbacks and is an outdoor shower even so ye have to talk about this out for Shack because I'm afraid is now for sharing she really does use it yield good chunk of the year due to add this one is is is an all weather shower this is year round eight it's really useful for basically any kind of weather so if you're an outdoorsy type this the one you just gotta make sure you can and Poplar trees to justify the price and as I ... look at that house right there that daring Connecticut eight point ... three million let's move all the way out to ... the Senate health ... we have a home here it's eleven thousand four hundred square feet and what's ... in thing about this is that the owners were really into ... the southern French architecture the one hundred storybook looks of the semester very whimsical Torrance inspires in the home ... country as an icon of Castle feel moody like a candy and movie posters what's that about me as though the owner ... has acted in a home and then she really wanted to make it a livable house and despite that did mention she thinks it's very cozy ... and so in that in the basement it's the theater she created the SEC and stand for the kids the app parks ... yet it's credited to Dennis Stevenson as well ... Gideon Avery has hit the ice and twelve bathrooms eight bedrooms and ... he's tired of the kitchen has two large islands like to get one for them one for the kids write the elites which is great it's a very large room cassettes from our house for them and they've ... both it that way so here are two very large kitchen islands are a eleven thousand four hundred square feet twenty just under twenty nine let's move ... over to Mt ... so we have ... the builder owner out there who competitors present is a self-described renegade in architecture he says he added he's not big on the clone in style GC pretty often and in Washington area ... so instead you went the other direction one very modern here's this about ... five cubic style modern home that is its multiple tubes connected writes class bridges ... great views tons of glass panels looking out onto the the landscape there ... aam and it's really just that you wouldn't ... imagine that just yet an area where Apple ponders the pond ... there there was an ... ad is a quick run beneath the beagle aspirations he can look directly down the block was denied a prayer and banks in the house to high five million for that I just under five million for that when a fire pit outside its well right ... now I'm saving up for storybook when we see in ... Dallas ... dislike of reality when ... you're eating to go check ... that it's a home buyer really ... renowned a ... designer of Dallas name is Charles till back his Baltimore six hundred homes in the area both spectrum cost them over the years ... mostly in the nineteen thirties ... and this is one of those homes and in the order actually has been kind of hunting down until back home says it will expand upon what God is known for is Khona mixing very well known styles ... and company announced the Knights of this home has a ... torrent of its own ... aam ABP said in a French Norman style with which is ... unusual about the small little ... access is put across the homeless on the exterior and interior to the D tells me an interesting next year to house an umpire Scott a Photoshop that's cayenne and ... that it will keep it that that that is beautiful outside and outdoor seating area at one point six million for that ... on the one I think for myself would be that renegade the sign in Maryland ... what everybody else ... well this week is actually the ... Connecticut home when there's no art the assault charge when Gary and ... I get the sun's along with a Altor shower it so ... that it wants now which are certain ... that I'd to read it you know they don't think semester being with us ... and brought them into beest lunch break with a lot of my programming coming up for you on Des beest dot com starting with OpinionJournal ... at one o'clock into and Simon Constable he will be there at four pm ... here we have always opted to everything including Obama is latest